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Originally posted by SandyD View PostIf they really are going to scrap university tuition fees, then I am happy with them increasing VAT on private schools, which is nothing by comparison to tuition fees.
My kids went to private school, and had to pay tuition fees…. I wonder what will they do with historical tuition fees for kids who went to uni since Bliar introduced the fees?
If they really are going to improve NHS, them am happy to give up my private health insurance, or pay the extra tax on it if I really wanted to keep it.
I too worked (still working ) in the Nordic countries, and think its amazing, clean, trains on times, people enjoying good living standards in spite of the higher tax and expensive everything.
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If they really are going to scrap university tuition fees, then I am happy with them increasing VAT on private schools, which is nothing by comparison to tuition fees.
My kids went to private school, and had to pay tuition fees…. I wonder what will they do with historical tuition fees for kids who went to uni since Bliar introduced the fees?
If they really are going to improve NHS, them am happy to give up my private health insurance, or pay the extra tax on it if I really wanted to keep it.
I too worked (still working ) in the Nordic countries, and think its amazing, clean, trains on times, people enjoying good living standards in spite of the higher tax and expensive everything.
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostAnd please let us not forget VAT levied on private school fees (instant 20% cost increase) and tax on private medical care.
Just on those they can **** right off!
Outside their utopia - and even inside their own fecking constituencies especially in London - it is well known if you are middle class and educated you can get better healthcare on the NHS as you know how to talk to doctors. You also get better education because you can afford to live in the catchment area of the better state schools. Oh and even in Nordic systems similar happens but not to the same extent and not with the same outcomes. They are s
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And please let us not forget VAT levied on private school fees (instant 20% cost increase) and tax on private medical care.
Just on those they can **** right off!
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I've worked in two Nordic countries and due to the burden of their welfare state they were looking towards a more market driven economy.
In one they expected both the state and the people to be responsible so there was a more sense of community while in the other the state did everything. The complaint from the people I know and knew there is that there is a limited sense of community due to this.
I'm only reminded of this as earlier when it was raining hard someone stopped to ask me directions. As I was very wet already it didn't bother me to give him detailed ones. In both those countries I had incidents in public in bad weather conditions where I could have injured myself. In the one where the state did everything people tutted but no-one offered to help, there is in the other people did come to my aid even though I was actually okay.
Also one thing that is missing is that the UK people never 100% trust the state. This is unlike the Nordic mindset. This one reason why extremist political groups and extreme people find it hard to get power in the UK, and if they have done like monarchs historically they can't maintain it. This is also why parties that are considered at the centre of current political scene get power. So Corbyn may not be hard left if you are currently Nordic but he is if you are currently British.
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Here's another gem I noticed today (better late than never)
2017-05-08 Labour plan to hit millions of workers by hiking medical insurance tax
You'd think any Government who genuinely cared about people forced to use the NHS would welcome anything which at private expense took some pressure off it.
But no, not a bit. Labour are as envious of those who "go private" in health as those who do the same for their kids in education (again, relieving the pressure on state schools).
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I'm not paying punitive tax so that Labour can splash it all over the place for the benefit of the the uneducated underclasses so that they can breed in vast numbers or so that mostly low skilled immigrants can settle in vast numbers supported by burgeoning state handouts.
Not now, not ever.
HTH BIDI
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This country is rapidly moving to Scandinavian level of taxation with Third country level of public services
And that's not acceptable.
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostHere's an idea.
If you love the thought of the EU, the socialist Scandinavian political landscape, hefty taxation, and other such nonsense, instead of banging on about it here, why don't you piss off and live there?
Sorted.
The nonsense is on the UK side of the table, USA 2.0 beta 1...
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Here's an idea.
If you love the thought of the EU, the socialist Scandinavian political landscape, hefty taxation, and other such nonsense, instead of banging on about it here, why don't you piss off and live there?
Sorted.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI think Corbyn is as a daft as a brush, and the Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes are also daft for tolerating such high taxes.
HTH
Daft? Amongst the highest satisfaction ratings in the world, happiness, lifestyle, disposable income relative to the cost of services, etc. UK? Doesn't rate well in these areas. It does for a few - i.e: us who earn £100k+ after tax.
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Scandinavians vs Labour
I'm in Ireland now, it's like you pay a tax for something and then you get to pay again. I pay PRSI and USC as like NI in UK, then pay the GP 60€ to see him.
Same thing coming to UK if Mrs May gets her way.
I prefer to be taxed at source for these things.
Scandinavia much better than the constant shelling out here and in UK, and the so called high tax isn't that much higher
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Originally posted by contractorinatractor View PostFor those of us who have worked and paid hefty tax in Norway, Sweden and Denmark - and to some extent Finland (slightly less Utopianesque): what do you think of the Labour policies? ...
HTH
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